Last year Doris took her eight-year-old son to the State Fair and put him on the roller coaster. She was horrified to see that shortly after the ride started, the coaster derailed, throwing her son to the ground. He died on the way to the hospital. Doris filed a civil suit. The compensation for her psychological damages is possible because the courts have recently allowed plaintiffs to sue for psychological damages if the conduct arises from ____________.
A. negligent behavior
B. proximate cause
C. intentional wrongdoing
D. None of these are correct.
Answer: A
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a. prejudices. b. attributions. c. self-serving biases. d. stereotypes.
Rogers believed that personality should be assessed through:
a. dream analysis. c. the study of the unconscious. b. a person's subjective experiences. d. psychological tests.
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a. none b. one c. two d. four
The fact that two-month-olds can detect the difference between the sound "pa" and the sound "ba" indicates that they
a. can differentiate phonemes. b. have cross-modal perception. c. have semantic awareness. d. possess visual accommodation.